tnixon@hayes.uucp (04/03/91)
A friend of my mother, who lives in Hawaii, has asked me to find them a good, inexpensive surge supressor. Everything in Hawaii is extremely expensive, so they want me to buy it here in Atlanta and ship it to them. No problem -- except there are so many brands and types to choose from! They have a small system -- a PC XT compatible, monitor, dot matrix printer, and modem -- so nothing real fancy is required, but they do have lighting pretty frequently. Does anyone have a particular brand of surge supressor that they swear by and would recommend I look at? How about one you swear AT and wouldn't recommend to your worst enemy, that I should avoid? Any thoughts you might have on the subject would be most appreciated. Please REPLY to me via email; I'll summarize and post the result to the group if requested. Thanks very much! -- Toby Nixon, Principal Engineer | Voice +1-404-840-9200 Telex 151243420 Hayes Microcomputer Products Inc. | Fax +1-404-447-0178 CIS 70271,404 P.O. Box 105203 | UUCP uunet!hayes!tnixon AT&T !tnixon Atlanta, Georgia 30348 USA | Internet hayes!tnixon@uunet.uu.net
jim@crom2.uucp (James P. H. Fuller) (04/03/91)
tnixon@hayes.uucp writes: > Does anyone have a particular brand of surge supressor that they > swear by and would recommend I look at? How about one you swear AT > and wouldn't recommend to your worst enemy, that I should avoid? > Any thoughts you might have on the subject would be most > appreciated. Please REPLY to me via email; I'll summarize and post > the result to the group if requested. Thanks very much! Do you mean powerline surge suppressor or modem line surge suppressor? I assume you mean the latter since this is the modem newsgroup; if so, please do summarise; it's a very interesting question and one that the maga- zines ignore -- but they shouldn't, because a-wire-is-a-wire-is-a-wire and you could get a lightning zap through your phone line just as easily as through the 110vAC socket. I *don't* know of many brands in this area. Radio Shack sells one, and I use it, but I'm not qualified to tell how good it is just by looking inside it. A question about another hang-on-the-phone-line accessory: does anyone know of an A/B switch for phone lines? My phone cable connector is WAY down behind my workbench, I can just barely reach it and can't see it, but I need to swap modem cables a couple of times a week when crom2 goes down or goes single-user for maintenance and I want my old 286 running Coherent to answer the phone for a while. That sure would be easier to accomplish if I could just flip a switch to send callers to the other box. I know such a thing wouldn't be hard to make but due to time pressures I'd rather just purchase one -- if anybody sells one, that it. Thanks very much for anyone's bright ideas on either question! ------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- crom2 Athens GA Public Access Unix | i486 AT, 16 mg RAM, 600 mg online | AT&T Unix System V release 3.2 Molecular Biology | Tbit PEP 19200bps - V.32 - V.42/V.42bis Population Biology | Ecological Modelling | Admin: James P. H. Fuller Bionet/Usenet/cnews/nn | {jim,root}%crom2@nstar.rn.com ------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------
tnixon@hayes.uucp (04/04/91)
In article <1991Apr03.144355.13660@crom2.uucp>, jim@crom2.uucp (James P. H. Fuller) writes: > Do you mean powerline surge suppressor or modem line surge suppressor? Actually, I meant power line, but many of them also have modem line supression as well. I'll summarize after a few more days of replies. > A question about another hang-on-the-phone-line accessory: does anyone > know of an A/B switch for phone lines? Just thumbing through the catalogs on my desk... Inmac sells an RJ-11 A/B switch (model 1991) for $125 (a lot of money!), or an A/B/C/D switch for $135. Order Line 800-547-5444. Black Box has an RJ-11 A/B A/B switch (model GS-SW036A) for $79, or A/B/C/D (model GS-SW037A) for $99. Order line 800-321-0746. Ooo, here's good one: L-Com has an RJ-11 A/B switch for $39 (model DSM); this looks like a compact, light-duty model. Their more traditional heavy-duty model (DTS6M2) is $59.50. Order line 800-343-1455. I'm sure there's more (I've got a BIG stack of catalogs), but this is a start, anyway. -- Toby Nixon, Principal Engineer | Voice +1-404-840-9200 Telex 151243420 Hayes Microcomputer Products Inc. | Fax +1-404-447-0178 CIS 70271,404 P.O. Box 105203 | UUCP uunet!hayes!tnixon AT&T !tnixon Atlanta, Georgia 30348 USA | Internet hayes!tnixon@uunet.uu.net